Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Denver, Colorado USA

Bottle. Seriously pitch brew swelling with an outlandish milk-chocolate coloured head subsiding to a slender collar. Never seen anything like it. Plenty more milk chocolate in the aroma- Neopolitan ice-cream on grapefruit, dusted with cocoa powder . Unquestionably beautiful but I like my big stouts with a tweak more roast. Faultless whipped mousse palate to let all those pungent soapy grapefruit and floral (rose) notes breathe. Quinine and burnt toast bitterness in a big abrupt finish. No aftertaste but the sensation of intense shampoo bitterness. Hint of liquorice, mostly soap. What happened to the chocolate? Lovely , pungently hopped beer but it tastes like an IPA. There’s milds of 3% with bigger malt profiles than this. That said, I loved it. More smoke, cocoa, coffee or dark fruit flavour required to achieve true stoutiness, but I’m nitpicking. A great beer.

Pours like, in the words of my friend, "a tall, dark chocolate handsome man."
Charcoal aroma with some tea and chocolate as well as chicory. Super-creamy silky mouthfeel! Flavors are all about coffee. Nuanced, lingering bitter aftertaste has some licorice too. Enchanting, sublime, smooth, intriguing, dark, and and sexy.

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of piney hops, chocolate, soy sauce, chocolate, and roasted malts. Poured black in color with a large, dense, dark brown head that lasted throughout. Opaque. Good lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of chocolate, piney hops, resinous hops, roasted malts, coffee and a bit of coco. Medium to full body. Chalky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Hoppy, bitter, chocolate, dry finish.

Pours very thick and oily, appears very sludgy, with a fastly fading tan head. Aroma is rich and chocolately. Taste is extremely full-bodied and full of chocolate flavoring. A great roasted taste that is slightly burnt with a full but slightly oily mouthfeel. Very highly recommended. Re: Rate Modest tan head that explodes and then dissipates opaque and black as midnight. Aroma is magnificent, rich coffee and chocolate with apricots and cherries, light diaper aroma. Like lavender and baby powder. Cocoa powder dominates. This is freaky tasty, lots of chocolate and cherry goodness, golden espresso with a very nice hop profile. Perfectly balanced from beginning to end.

Black with a brown head. Mildly fruity, coffee-ish mocha-ish aroma. Silky smooth palate. Dryish, but also sweet. Familiar flavors of coffee and chocolate are there, of course, but also an appealing hop bite, like pine or even a citrus flavor. Very enjoyable.

My thoughts on this really echo what some other people have said recently. There are some wonderful qualities here that speak to the effort put into it. 100% opaque for all practical purposes (unless you get really picky about looking for the edge), with a very dark tan head, though it doesn’t hang around much on this high-alcohol beast. Another strong-suit: the mouthfeel, which is very silky and oily. But I am really surprised at the hop/malt balance chosen for this. Although some grape/port aromas compement the roasted aromas, there were times when my nose couldn’t find its way through the hops. And the flavor, while big, leaned too heavily on a roasted note that glossed into hoppy aftertastes. I was looking for a beer that would glide with richness and oozing dessert-beer qualities, but I found moments of raw aggression--perhaps that’s the Yeti coming out here.

Bomber from a trade with AbusedGoat; nose of coffee, a little smoke, bitter chocolate, and a molasses hint; Opaque ebony-black with a medium, strongly lacing tan head; Flavor shows coffee, chocolate, and a nice lightly hoppy finish, but not really much of any alcohol, whichs seems well covered.

On tap at Capital Ale House - Downtown on 04/28/2009. Very dark black body with a medium frothy brown head. Roast, chocolate, coffee and molassas aroma. Big roast and chocolate flavor with light molassas, a touch of coffee, and a big bitter finish. Full body with moderate carbonation. 8/5/8/3/16 - 4.0 5/12/2006: Dark black body with a thick creamy brown head. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel, and floral hops. Sweet caramel, molassas and floral hops flavor. 8/5/8/3/16 - 4.0